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J. S. FAIRL'Y.

LINING FOR RBPRIGBRATORS.

Patented Apr. Z7, 1886.

ATTORNEYS.

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

JOHN S. FATRLY, OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

LlNlNe FOR REFRIGERATORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,869, dated April 27, 1886.

Application iileil August 20, 1885. Serial No. 174,909. (No model.)

To LZZ whom it may concern# Be it known `that I, JOHN S. FAIRLY, of Charleston, in the county of Charleston and State of South Carolina, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Refrigerators, of which the following is a description.

This invention is an improvement in refrigerating-packages, and particularly in the packing or fillingr therefor; audit has for an object to provide a packingwhich will be cheap,will more efficiently exclude air and heat than the substances now generally used for these purposes, and which will render valuable an article which at present has practical-ly no general commercial value.

In the drawing is represented i'n vertical section a refrigerator supplied with my packing.

The refrigerator may be of ordinary construction having` the chambers A, into which is placed the packing B. This packing is cotton-seed hulls, which is packed into the chambers.

By a cou rse of experiments it has been demonstrated that the hulls of cotton-seed have peculiarly valuable properties as an insulator against heat, and a preservative, by reason of itsexclusion of air, of fruits, meals, and the like. It is, however, especially useful in refrigerators, and preserving ice in transitu and in store.

I show a refrigerator supplied with my improved packing.

The invention is applicable to many uses. It may be employed with advantage in refrigerating-cars a-nd elsewhere, as necessity may indicate.

Having thus described my invention,\vliat I claim as new is- 1. The improved insnlating-lling for packing, consisting of cotton-seed hulls, substantially as set forth.

2; As an improvement in the art of refrigerating and preserving, the utilization of cotton-seed hulls as an insulator, substantially as set forth. y y 3. As a new article of manufacture, a refrigeratiiig-package having,` a packing of cotton seed hulls, substantially as set forth.

J NO. S. FAIRLY.

lVitnesses: i

P. D1 TURPIN, SoLoN C. KEMON. 

